moneyers of this period, was working for the Abbey of St. Au recorded as being assigned one moneyer in Aethelstan's Gr
156 AUCTION
20 MAY 2025
The
Dr. Irving Schneider Collection
Part 1 Diademed bust right, +CIOLVVLF REX, rev. cross cros
3043
Ceolwulf I, 821-823. AR Penny, Group I, portrait type, L
Anglo-Saxon Norman Coins Light iridescent and tone. EF. A superb coin and the only coin; N.378; S.922.
not in a museum collection.
Ex Westminster School (lot 351). From the Delgany (C
3157
Baronial issues, Eustace Fitzjohn, c.1150-c.1153. AR Penny, Standing knight type, York. Figure standing right in armour wearing helmet and holding sword, star behind, EVSTACIVS+, rev. cross in quatrefoil, pellets in angles, +EBORACI. ED.TS(retrograde). 1.25 g. Mack 223a = Allen 114 - th coin; N.929; S.1316. A magnicent coin. Toned with golden highlights. Near EF. Very rare, especially so in such good metal.
15’0
Ex Spink 6, 10-11 October 1979 (lot 518), V. J. E. Ryan (Pt. II, lot 933), F. H. Wheeler (lot 195), H. M. Reynolds (Pt. II, lot 86), J. G. Murdoch (Pt. I, lot 262), and H. Webb (Pt. I, lot 43) 'perfectly struck, extremely rare, and in a fautless state of preservation'.
A wonderful depiction of a Noman knight with drawn sword, this exceptional type was wholly appropriate for Eustace Fitzjohn, one of the most powerful northern barons of his day. Having submitted to Stephen in 1135, Eustace fought with the Scots against the king at the Battle of the Standard in 1138. Despite this defeat he managed to flourish during the turmoil of the 1140s, increasing lands and founding abbeys and priories bef R Penny, Minster type (c.910-915), west Mercian mint,hisWulfgar. being reconciled with Stephen in 1153. He died in battle in Wales in 1157 fighting for Henry II.
X, rev. Anglo-Saxon minster with nave, tower and side aisles on central w. 1.52 g. Ruding, pl. 16, no. 22 = CTCE 342b = SCBI Mack 768 - this coin;